Alfredo Tirado-Ramos, PhD
Distinguished computational scientist and informatics expert Alfredo Tirado-Ramos, PhD, has joined the Dartmouth community to lead biomedical and translational informatics programs for the Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) health system.
Tirado-Ramos’ multifaceted leadership responsibilities will include serving as director of biomedical informatics at SYNERGY Clinical and Translational Science Institute—Dartmouth’s CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Award), funded by the National Institutes of Health. Tirado-Ramos will also serve as director of the Biomedical Data Science Research Software Laboratory and associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Geisel, and scientific director of biomedical informatics for D-H.
“We are delighted to have Alfredo aboard—being able to secure someone of his experience and expertise is a major coup for Dartmouth,” says Alan I. Green, MD, chair and professor of psychiatry at Geisel, and director of SYNERGY. “Informatics is a key part of modern clinical and translational research and an essential component of linking data from electronic health records with research questions. Alfredo’s impact will be dramatic in helping us use ‘big data’ in sophisticated ways to advance our efforts in research and patient care throughout our system and beyond.”
Tirado-Ramos was formerly the chief and founder of the Clinical Informatics Division of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where he led a full-spectrum biomedical informatics program that explored the intersection between informatics, translational science, and clinically relevant datacentric problems—including computable phenotype-based research in areas such as health disparities, obesity, ALS, aging, and cancer.
With substantial funding from PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) and the CTSA Program, he created an information research system for interdisciplinary collaboration between pediatric endocrinologists, cancer researchers and neurologists, while establishing new institutional governance frameworks. Tirado-Ramos also co-directed the informatics core at the San Antonio Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center—as part of a National Institute on Aging award—where he developed state-of-the-art informatics tools to investigate treatments for age-related diseases, with a major focus on pharmacological interventions.
